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Playgoers who were aghast at the announcement that Lionel Atwill and David Belasco had split, will be relieved to learn that the former has not ceased doing things "worth while." He is rehearsing a drama entitled The Heart of Cellini. The action is largely set in the senescence of the historical goldsmith, philanderer, swordsman...
MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY? The bewildering charm of Mrs. Fiske let loose on a high comedy by St. John Ervine. Produced by David Belasco...
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Mrs. Fiske, David Belasco and St. John Ervine pooled their artillery and the first big gun of the current season went off with a heavy boom. Despite the reverberations in the theatrical world concurrent with the presentation, the critics were not ecstatically enthusiastic. They deemed Mrs. Fiske magnificent; Belasco, about normal; Ervine, a trifle unsubstantial...
...Gold Diggers. Some months ago David Belasco jumped overboard from the bridge from which he directs legitimate theatrical enterprise and landed with a huge splash in the midst of the celluloid ocean. He presented?for a considerable consideration?the rights to several of his plays to certain movie impresarios. He stipulated that in their metamorphosis his traditions should be respected rather than those of the gelatine industry. For these things the population is indebted to Mr. Belasco. The Gold Diggers appears much as it appeared on the stage and evolves into that rarest of movie aves?a good, high comedy...
...Warburg, Sigmund Freud, Simon Flexner, Julius Rosenwald, Irving Lehman, Julian W. Mack, Leon Trotzky, Max Lieberman, Adolph S. Ochs, Ahad Ha'am and Abram I. Elkus, Albert A. Michelson, Henrietta Szold, Jacques Loeb, Luigi Luzzati, Leopold Auer, Cyrus Adler, Herman Bernstein, Lee K. Frankel, A. I. Kook, David Belasco, Samuel Gompers, Israel Abrahams, Max Reinhardt, Joseph Rosenblatt, Sir Alfred Mond, Milton J. Rosenau, Jakob Wasserman, Jascha Heifitz, Maximilian Harden, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Otto Warburg, Jacob Epstein, Joseph H. Hertz...